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2019 Fayette County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Fayette County, WV went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 318K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 404th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fayette County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 30, 2019 05:00 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 19h 15m | 5,384 | 43K |
| 2 | September 9, 2019 17:15 | September 10, 2019 01:00 | 7h 45m | 3,995 | 11K |
| 3 | March 25, 2019 09:30 | March 25, 2019 10:15 | 45m | 2,906 | 1,063 |
| 4 | August 12, 2019 19:15 | August 13, 2019 03:30 | 8h 15m | 2,875 | 1,104 |
| 5 | October 6, 2019 22:15 | October 7, 2019 09:45 | 11h 30m | 2,761 | 735 |
| 6 | October 11, 2019 09:15 | October 11, 2019 09:30 | 15m | 2,756 | 689 |
| 7 | May 3, 2019 20:15 | May 5, 2019 02:30 | 1d 6h | 2,540 | 12K |
| 8 | June 21, 2019 05:45 | June 26, 2019 14:15 | 5d 8h | 1,739 | 7,541 |
| 9 | April 13, 2019 13:45 | April 13, 2019 22:45 | 9h | 1,522 | 2,309 |
| 10 | November 11, 2019 13:45 | November 12, 2019 00:30 | 10h 45m | 1,519 | 2,559 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 115 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Fayette County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 23,870 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette County, WV annual power outage report, 2019, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/west-virginia/fayette-county